Adobe Flex Training Course

Adobe Flex Course Contents

Part 1. Introduction To Flash Builder And Flex SDK

What Are Rich Internet Applications (RIAs)?

• Understanding Rich Internet Applications
• Advantages Of Rich Internet Applications
• Examples Of Internet Applications
• Introducing The Flex Product Line
• Configuring Flex Interfaces
• Getting Used To Flex Interfaces

Creating Our First Project

• Understanding The Flex Builder Workbench
• Creating An Application In Design Mode
• Running Your Application
• What Are Containers?
• What Are Viewstates?
• Introduction Of Forms, The Form Components And Validation
• Data Providers, Array Collections And Data Binding
• Breaking Content Down Into Components
• Adding Navigation To The Application With The View Stack
• Modularising Our Design To Promote Performance And Flexibility
• Controlling View States
• Changing Content At Runtime Using View States
• Extending State Changes With Transitions

Handling Events and Data Structures

• Introduction To Handling Events And Complex Data Structures
• Building a Custom Actionscript Class
• Building a Method To Create An Object
• Building Shopping Cart Classes
• Exploring the Event Object

Part 2. Flex With Cascading Style Sheet

• Creating Components With MXML
• Introduction to MXML Components
• Understanding the Basics on How to Create a Custom Component
• Step by Step to Creating a Custom Component
• Using Custom Components in Application Architecture
• Creating Another Value Object

Custom Events

• What is Loosely Coupled Architecture?
• Dispatch an Event
• Declaring Events
• Custom Event Classes
• Understanding Event Flow and Event Bubbling

Modularising Our CSS And Exploring Actionscript 3

• Customising The Standard Pre-Loader And Offloading The CSS Load Routine
• Using Adobe Flash Content And Custom Components In Our Applications
• Customising The Module Loader To Add Flash Animation
• Introducing The New Flex 4 Spark Component Set
• Exploring The Skinning Model
• Creating And Implementing A Custom Skin With MXML And FXG
• Our First Look At Retrieving Data Dynamically And Displaying It In Different Forms

Part 3. Dynamic Data

• Using Remote XML Data
• Introduction to XML
• Retrieving XML Data with HTTPService
• Using Array Collections
• Using Collections as Data Providers
• Understanding Security Issues
• Populating a List with Retrieved XML as an ArrayCollection of Objects
• Populating a ComboBox Control and Programmatically Adding an Option
• Using XML Data with a Tree Control
• Understanding E4X operators
• Populating a Tree Control with XML Data
• Retrieving XML Data and Transforming it into an ArrayCollection of Custom Objects
• Using Data Binding with Complex Data Structures
• Sorting and Manipulating Shopping Cart Data
• Adding a Remove Button

Separating The Tasks Into Individual Components

• The Singleton Design Pattern And Building A Data Model
• Displaying Data In A Data Grid And Customising The Output With Label Functions And Item Renderers
• Presenting Our Data More Visually Using The Tile List And Data Group
• The Importance Of Strong Typing And Value Objects
• Creating Custom Events To Communicate Between Components
• Using Data Binding To Display Detail For A Selected Item
• Visualising Data With The Charting Components
• Using The Popup Manager To Reveal Modal Dialog Boxes
• Finalising A Release Build And Deploying Your Flex Application

Part 4. Installing The Web Application Server And BlazeDS

• Creating A Project In A Server Based Environment
• Interacting With SOAP Web Services To Request And Submit Data
• The BlazeDS Proxy Service To Integrate Disparate Systems
• Restful Web Services And Flash Builder 4
• Java Remoting, AMF And BlazeDS
• Hibernate And Spring Integration
• Using The Messaging Service To Implement A Simple Chat Tool
• Comparing LiveCycle Data Services And BlazeDS
• Implementing LCDS On Our Web Application Server
• Live Messaging With RTMP
• Flex → LiveCycle Integration
• Introducing Data Management Services And Editable Grids

Part 5. Version Control In Flash Builder 4

• The Model-View-Controller And The Cairngorm Framework
• Creating The Key Elements Of The Framework
• Value Objects And The Importance Of Strong Typing
• Building Custom Events And Commands
• The Role Of The Front Controller
• Service Integration With Delegates, Responders And Asynctokens
• Displaying Our Results Visually
• Enabling Filtering Through Interaction, Events And Commands
• Event Driven Master-Detail Sets
• Grouping Collections And Client Side Analysis
• Deploying The Release Build Of Your Application

Projects in Adobe Flex Course:

Project 1: Create an Animated Button with Flex

Project 2: Create a Simple Contact Form with Flex

Project 3: Create a Simple Website and Load the Content Dynamically.

Project 4: Create a Simple Application In a Server Based Environment

Project 5: Create a Products Page with all Functionalities.